Whitney v. State

PATTERSON, Justice:

Appellants, Negroes, were indicted by a grand jury of Claiborne County for the crime of shooting into a house in violation of Mississippi Code 1942 Annotated section 2086.5 (Supp.1966).

Prior to their entry of pleas of not guilty, the appellants moved the court to quash the grand jury indictment on the ground of systematic exclusion of Negroes from the grand jury. The following day, January 4, prior to trial, a similar motion was made to quash the petit jury. At the hearing on this motion the record of the hearing on the motion to quash the venire in the case of Watts v.…